Civilization In Lord Of The Flies: An Analysis

Civilization and order are two important themes in William Golding's Lord of the Flies. The characters within the novel are a group of English boys with a leader named Ralph who attempted to form a civilized society on the island where they were stranded. Various rules and laws were formulated for their survival and rescue. The leader enforced the laws, and held meetings for the boys to express their opinions. Throughout the book, these rules became a part of the boys’ lives, but how did these rules affect their society? When rules and laws are followed, a civilized society is prevented from its retrogression.

The human mind is made of up two instincts that constantly have conflict: the instinct to live by society’s rules and the instinct to live by your own rules. Our civilized will has been to live morally by law and order, and our savage will has been to act out for our own selfish needs. We each choose to live by one or the other depending on how we feel is the correct way to live. In this allegorical novel, William Golding represents the transformation from civilization to savagery in the conflict between two of the main characters: Ralph who represents law and order and Jack who represents savagery and violence. Lord of the Flies has remained a very controversial novel to this day with its startling, brutal, and truthful picture of the

Will Durant, an American writer, historian, and philosopher, once said, “Civilization begins with order, grow with liberty, and ends with chaos.” If civilization is lost within a community, all order can vanish. Every community has some sort of civility and order in place. Without out it, the community would crumble and conflict would break out. Although all communities are flawed, most have something to keep peace. In William Golding’s novel, Lord of the Flies, Golding gives several examples of various things that keep civilization in order, when a group of boys get stranded on an island. Golding uses a conch to symbolize the boys’ civilization and order and as the time spent on the island increases, that order slowly disappears.

“We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we 're capable of” (Phil McGraw) one once said. In Lord of the Flies the characters wear a social mask that opposes their true feelings. Written by William Golding, the story revolves around a group of boys who become stranded on an island and must depend on themselves to survive. They elect a chief, a boy named Ralph. However, as the story progresses, the group become influenced by Jack, an arrogant choir chapter boy. Intriguingly, although they desire to be with Jack and join his tribe, the boys remain with Ralph for most of the story. The rhetorical triangle, which analyzes a speaker or writer based on three ideas- ethos, pathos, and logos-, helps many to better understand the children’s actions and mentality; ethos focuses on the credibility and ethics of the speaker while pathos concerns how the speaker appeals to the emotions of the audience and logos is about the speaker’s use of evidence to appeal to the audience’s sense of reason. The boys stay with Ralph because of Ralph’s use of ethos but prefer to be with Jack because of Jack’s use of pathos and ethos which shows Golding’s message- humans were masks.

In many parts of the world, humans live in a civilized society where law and order are organized and enforced. But within a lawless society, savagery surfaces in an ungoverned setting of bloodshed and harm. In Lord of the Flies by William Golding, Civility and Savagery are differentiated with Ralph and Jack, Ralph establishes a community compared to Jack who damage and divide civilization. Because of how Jack and Ralph use their democratic and dictatorial authority, through the examples of the declined civilization, the increase of savagery and the different ways of power by Ralph and Jack.

"The lord of the flies" is a novel by William Golding author published in 1954 that shows fragility of civilization. It describes the regressive course of children themselves.

“Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.” The posed question is if society is controlled by people, or are people controlled by society. Some may argue that society is controlled by people, but if you step into the light is that really the case. If you were to look at society, really look at it, who is being controlled. Its not society itself, sure people affect the directions society turns, but that is a small group of people who represent societies movement and trends. People do not really affect what society truly is. Society is, as said before, a mental concept, the popular, important figures in the world are the physical representation. The world is full of unique individuals, although everyone is under influence of society. It is subconscious, but always there. These next paragraphs will express how society controls people by elaborating on three main ideas that show up in the book Lord of The Flies. Society controls our actions, we learn from society and use it to try to be in control of others, and it is always there and so we have no idea what to do apart from it.

A society cannot be possible without rules. Although some societies seem as though they are different some are known to have at least 3 rules to as many as they want. Society needs rules to function, for it will fall apart.

A saying that is used throughout the Norton Marching Band is “everybody all of the time,” which is to say if one person messes up once that causes more problems than just their own one mistake. If one was to miss one day of rehearsal there would be a hole and another individual would miss their dots because they had no one to guide off of. Golding believed that “everybody all of the time” was true in the sense of society. In his novel Lord Of The Flies Piggy, Ralph, and Jack have failures during the novel that cause other mistakes to be more significant. Proving that society fails due to the failure of the individual.

Based on the way William Golding wrote Lord of the Flies, it would seem that he would say Americans are free because even though they have laws and restrictions, everyone still has the right to be who they want to and do what they want. Golding shows in the book that if you become really free things can end badly such as when the boys split in two different tribes and fight against each other, when they kill Simon, or when they kill Piggy.

Lord of the Flies written by William Golding which is a novel. I would say that the theme of this book is Savagery vs. Civilization because in the book those two things are what is explored. A plane crash is the result of the plane being shot at. The plane was filled with boys and when the plane went down they landed on an island. On that island, we came into a conflict between Jack and Ralph, who represents civilization and savagery.

Ralph represents civilization in the Lord of the Flies. He portrays civilized characteristics as he establishes a democracy between the boys. On page 42 of the book , the readers can see this through Piggy’s favor towards Ralph. “ I agree with Ralph. We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, we’re not savages…” Another instinct where Ralph conveys the image of civilization is on page 59. The text is talking about the power and authority the conch bestows as Ralph blows it. The conch is a system Ralph established to keep order. “They obeyed the summons of the conch, partly because Ralph blew it, and he was big enough to be a link with the adult world of authority…” To conclude, Ralph best represents civilization in the Lord of the Flies

Civilization today has become almost completely reliant on technology. Almost the entire planet is connected by phone lines, roads, air travel, or the internet. People converse with others thousands of miles away through modern connections, watch live broadcasts of news in foreign lands, or talk on wireless phones by use of satellites. We are governed by laws designed to protect us. We live in heated homes with fresh water and electricity. We commute to work by car or mass transit. We live by rules, values, and ideals that keep the peace. Our world is organized, convenient, and technologically advanced. What would happen if suddenly our civilization

In Lord of the Flies, the civilized world and the savage world clash. Some of the visual components that I used in the visual piece are, fire, huts , a spear, rocks , and a coconut shell filled with clay. These symbols represent the difference between the savage and the civil world. My focal point would be the hut because this was one of the early stages of the group of turing savage. The boys did were not co-operating with each other. The huts also represent civilization because the huts represent a makeshift home. I placed the hut in the middle to show the beginning of the disappearance of the civilized world. I drew a campfire with smoke coming out of it. The fire represents the savage world because the fire itself can be used to inflict

What is civilization? Civilization is people and the advancement of human beings. It can also be something small such as a pair of glasses. In the book Lord of the Flies, a group of young boys are stranded on an island without any connection to the civilized world except for Piggy’s specs. Golding showed this by the fact that Piggy is the one of the very few boys to remain human during their time on the island, and his glasses help the boys survive in multiple different ways.